What a good girl!
A beautiful pooch may have just earned herself the title of the ‘goodest girl’ after she helped to save her owners life.
Back in 2016, Alhanna Butler was in the midst of her first pregnancy. She was experiencing extreme back pain – and something didn’t feel right – but doctors just told her it was because it was due to her small frame.
“It was awful. People though I was just being a wimp and kept telling be ‘oh, if you can’t handle this, how are you going to cope with having a baby. But I could hardly walk,” Butler told The Mirror UK.
However, despite doctors insisting it was only back pain, Keola, Butler’s Japanese Akita, seemed to know better.
Keola would constantly nudge, star and cry at her pregnant belly.
“No one really understood how ill I was – but Keola did. She would nudge me and cry and I could never figure out why she had suddenly started doing this. Ricky said she was distraught whenever I went to work, when she had never minded before,” she said.
“I posted a picture of her doing this on Facebook and made the joke about the film Hachi: A Dog’s Tale where the dog also does this and suddenly my friends all started saying I should take it seriously.
“Then my mum phoned and said ‘listen to your dog, she is trying to tell you something’. It turns out she was absolutely right – and she saved our lives.”
Alhanna checked herself into hospital, where she was told some shocking news – if she had come in any later, she would be dead.
She was suffering from a double kidney infection that was antibiotic resistant. They actually had to create a completely new antibiotic in the lab in order to treat it.
Two years later, Keola and Alhanna’s two-year-old son Lincoln are best friends.
Many others have gone on to share their stories of their pooches doing similar things when they’ve been sick, with many suggesting that dogs are able to smell illnesses.
Dogs really are our best friends.
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Words by Kate Stevens
Image: Facebook
